{"id":908,"date":"2024-02-02T12:36:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T12:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/?p=908"},"modified":"2024-02-02T13:07:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T13:07:51","slug":"54-year-old-man-jailed-after-huge-500k-drug-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/2024\/02\/02\/54-year-old-man-jailed-after-huge-500k-drug-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"54-year-old man jailed after HUGE \u00a3500k drug bust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 54-year-old has been jailed after being found with firearms and piles of illegal drugs in rural Kent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Allen has been sentenced to six years in prison after his trial at Maidstone Crown Court this Wednesday. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities discovered two guns along with 60kg of Class A drugs in a nearby storage container that Allen had access to.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Detective Stacey Chapman made the point that guns and violence \u201cgo hand-in hand with drug dealing\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers from Kent and Essex obtained a search warrant at an industrial estate near Bethesdan on 27 July 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The seized drugs have an estimated street value of \u00a3500,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with these were two small guns, which the suspect claimed to be antiques, but were proven to be viable by authorities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a370k worth of cash was also found at the scene, along with drug packaging, money counting machines and a purity test for cocaine.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kent-police.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kent-police.webp 976w, https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kent-police-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kent-police-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 976px) 100vw, 976px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">KENT POLICE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 54-year-old has been jailed after being found with firearms and piles of illegal drugs in rural Kent.&nbsp; David Allen has been sentenced to six years in prison after his trial at Maidstone Crown Court this Wednesday. \u00a0 Authorities discovered two guns along with 60kg of Class A drugs in a nearby storage container that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27,23],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-crime","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centreforjournalismprojects.co.uk\/kentstandard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}